Decider

‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2 True Story: How Petty Rich People Drama Built the Metropolitan Opera House

The Gilded Age Season 2 Episode 1 “You Don’t Even Like Opera” on HBO sets up the primary conflict of the season — the Opera Wars — right from the jump. The year is 1883, Bertha Russell (Carrie ...
Yahoo

Is The Gilded Age's Opera War Based on a True Story?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I’ve always been interested in the whole business of exclusion,” Julian Fellowes says. “I wrote in Snobs ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Julian Fellowes on Writing Big First When it Comes to ‘The Gilded Age’: “I Don’t Really Spend Much Time on Budgets”

The creator of the HBO period drama also talks about the symbolism of the series’ season-long retelling of Manhattan’s opera wars. By Mikey O'Connell Senior Entertainment Editor Leave it to Julian ...
collider

‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2's Decadent Opera Wars, Explained by Writer

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...